Whats the 'worst' pet you have ever had?

Pensivepuca

What has been the grumpiest, awful, destructive pet you have had? I had a rabbit, was a sweet thing until she was attacked by another new rabbit (the new rabbit was removed). From then on she would bite, scratch and growl. I have scars all over my hands from her. I still cared about her, lovely at times, she died in my arms, but by christ did she have a head on her. Anyone else have a tempermental animal?

cantdecide

A mountain lion. The blood. So much blood.

Captain Slow IRL

Goldfish, most boring pet ever.

Weevil

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

Goldfish, most boring pet ever.

Goldfish. Dead in a week. The mouse I won at the summer-fair was like owning a leopard in comparison.

Chucken

A cat I have at the moment. I swear he's evil. He bites me at every opportunity. He has shredded 2 suites of furniture so far and hes only 3

But when hes tired and needs a cuddle, its all forgotten
I wouldnt part with him for anything.

captain_irish

African giant land snail. (yes a snail) well 2. and slow thinks a goldfish is boring.

Funk It

A ferret, was a mental bugger, never knew that they give off a bad smell when they startle themselves either

stefan idiot jones

I knew a girl who had a pit bull, of all dogs, who took offence to being locked in the kitchen when she went to work.
She came home one evening to find the kitchen door had a dog sized hole in it and a pit bull on the settee. It ate its way through.

B0jangles

A red-rumped parakeet called Noddy.

We adoped him after our incredibly sweet, gentle cockatiel died, because his owner at the time said he was hand-reared and that meant he was tame and comfortable with people.

Except red-rumped parakeets are fúcking psychos to other birds so the only thing keeping people safe from them is their innate fear of humans.

Which hand-rearing removes.

I think you can see where this is going.

The little guy was completely insane; he'd fly in your face and try to eat your eyeballs, all you could to was bat him away as much as you could with your hands. He fell in love with a yellow duster. He'd sit and sing to it for hours on end; if you were foolish enough to actually use the duster for anything, well... Noddy would LOSE HIS TEMPER.

Transcript from post-duster-using Noddy encounter:

"I've finished the dusting , so I'll just put the duster and Mr. Sheen away will I?"
"Yeah, sounds good to me"
"Oh shít, the cage is empty - where the hell is Noddy?"
"I dunno, he's sitting up in the window I think"
*Sound of fast flying from the corner of the room*
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
*Frantic hand-waving to deflect enraged tiny parrot*
*Sound of footsteps fleeing the room*
*Parrot settles down with discarded yellow duster and starts singing love songs to it*

Fortunately we were able to rehome him with a man who has big outdoor aviaries and as far as I know he settled in perfectly.

Vote 4 Pedro

Cat, Little git tore up my leather sofa,

yellowcrayon

I breed rabbits and himself decided to let one of the females into the living room whilst I was out at work. He came to collect me from work but forgot to put her back in her hutch.... In the hour it took to get me back home from work she completely destroyed my living room.. Bottom halves of the curtains eaten off, the corners of every piece of furniture chewed, and huge patches of the carpet torn up (we had to take it up eventually and put down wood flooring). Never really liked that rabbit after that.

beano345

A psychotic jack russell

Voltex

Funk It wrote: »

A ferret, was a mental bugger, never knew that they give off a bad smell when they startle themselves either

...so they **** themselves?

Ihatecuddles-old

My hamster, chewy. Always biting me, escaping, hiding under the cooker. In the end I accidentally froze him to death when I left his cage in the kitchen overnight with the window open.

Felt horrible and cried for weeks. Poor little thing

Pai Mei

Three dogs that died before I was born that never got replaced. I missed out.

Amerika

A bat I kept in a bird cage. (I was one weird kid)

Scruffles

Funk It wrote: »

A ferret, was a mental bugger, never knew that they give off a bad smell when they startle themselves either

yeah,think thats the male ones,in the US they tend to operate on them to remove the stink glands but theyre OTT anyway as they still allow ops like declawing.
great granddad of mine actualy hunted in tipp with ferrets,it is incredible to think a ferret can be a hunter and weapon,am not sure we are going to see wannabe gangsters swapping their pitbulls for ferrets any time soon though.

personaly speaking,woud never see a species as the worst,just because have had bad experiences with any,the only reasons have had bad experiences with pets is due to them having health issues and disabilities; they had no fault in it...though am definitely biased towards human,what a crap species.

oldyouth

Her indoors has had various cats over the last 25 years. Standard issue ones.

Totally useless yokes altogether. I'd rather keep a snot as a pet, it would be more interesting

mutley18

Have never had a bad pet, if i had to pick then the worst would be a spaniel who humped everything, the cushions in the living room were constantly getting raped, but I just laughed. (It was a she, randy beeatch)

Mysteriouschic

Goldfish the ones I had never lasted more than a day had to keep replacing them.

mutley18

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Goldfish the ones I had never lasted more than a day had to keep replacing them.

A day?! Did you keep the bowl on the stove?

Mysteriouschic

mutley18 wrote: »

A day?! Did you keep the bowl on the stove?

Nope on a table in the kitchen I don't know they just always died or think one did last a few days but they die so easily.

RossPaws

A ferret. Adopted him from somebody when he was old enough to have developed bad habits. He had never been kept in a cage and was allowed the run of the house with his old owners, so whenever we tried to put him in the big ferret cage we had he would gnaw on the bars and whack himself around like a furry wrecking ball until we let him out. Eventually we decided it was easier to just let him have the run of the place.

He smelled so strongly, you could whiff him as soon as you walked into the house. He scent marked everything. Left lines of pee everywhere he went, like little slug trails.

Sometimes you'd walk into a room and he'd just bound out from under the couch or table and latch onto your ankle or foot. The only way to get him off was to push a pencil against his tongue or put a lemon at his face. I'm not even exaggerating, like we got so used to it that at random points throughout the day one of us would be walking around the house with the ferret hanging from our hands or dragging from our legs, casually searching the presses for a pencil.

He was allowed into the garden (that's where he went for his toilet needs) but he burrowed everywhere. Chewed the back gate so badly we had to replace it, same with the shed door. Bit the neighbour's dog once, when it was foolish enough to poke its nose through a gap in the fence.

Would go missing for hours at a time, only to turn up a while later asleep in the clean clothes.

On the bright side, he would kill any rats or mice that were around in the winter and he could be a real sweetheart when he wasn't playing at being the anti-Christ. But I really think the cons outweighed the pros in this case. He smelled so badly. I know I already said that, but wow. He really stank.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROcKPuPvcWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uovajICkI9g

CrazyRabbit

Marcus, a 22 year old German.

Nice lad, but was a really terrible pet. He wouldn't even let me rub his belly.

worded

cantdecide wrote: »

A mountain lion. The blood. So much blood.

Fyi -'They are the only large wild cat that can wistlle, but choose not to.

Mozzeltoff

I never had a pet that I didn't like. My dad use to breed German Shepherds and they were pretty awesome!!

However my sister in law has a Bichon Frise called Charlie and she is the most spoiled and neediest dog I have ever come across. My SIL has to actually get someone to mind the dog when she goes to work. I know that sounds ridiculous but there has being times she's left the dog on her own in the house and come back to piles of ****,paper,rubbish and everything just pretty much destroyed...all by a tiny Bichon Frise.

She's tried rehoming the little frigmite but people end up giving her back as she was too much to handle and too needy. The dog has chewed up countless amounts of headphones, cables off phone chargers, a pair of pretty expensive heels, remote controls, you name she's chewed it. She ate a pack of Neurofen one day and it resulted in the SIL being charged a fortune in vets bills. Also when you're going to bed, the dog comes with you. Try leaving her out in the hall or out in the yard and you can forget about sleeping.

She's trying to pawn the dog onto myself and the OH but it ain't happening. Dog is too high maintenance and too spoiled! She'll end up as cotton wool if we take her!

RidleyRider

mutley18 wrote: »

Have never had a bad pet, if i had to pick then the worst would be a spaniel who humped everything, the cushions in the living room were constantly getting raped, but I just laughed. (It was a she, randy beeatch)

I love how you're name is mutley like the dog from dastardly and mutley:D

LETHAL LADY

When I was about 5 I spent two days playing with a dead wasp, laid out on a Sindy doll weighing scales, all covered up in a piece of tissue.
**** that was weird not only for the wasp play, but why did Sindy have a weighing scales?

Sir Osis of Liver.

Saved up my pocket money,a pound a week to buy Hoppy,a beautiful white rabbit.

Managed to get the required 5 pounds together to buy Hoppy,had a hutch prepared,rabbit food,the works.

Finally the day came,it was time to pick up the rabbit.There was great excitement in the house.

Got the rabbit home ,watched with delight as he jumped around the sitting room.
Next thing a cat appeared at the window and stared intensely at Hoppy.

Hoppy on seeing the fcukin cat had a massive heart attack,keeled over and died.
Had him a whole 10 minutes.
C unt.

LETHAL LADY

A rampant rabbit out of batteries? :pac:

Pretzill

Never had a bad pet only had bad humans. It looks like rabbits are winning the baddest pet award so far. Who knew?

Aidric

A peri winkle. After a night on the beer we had to go our separate ways, and by separate ways I mean down the gullet.

General General

My mate Paul had a **** pet, Rocky was its name.

Yep. It was a stone.

Paul took that stone everywhere, tied to a piece of string.

It looked a bit like a duck, but a duck made of stone.

There's more to this story... but it's a "roller coaster", I warn you all.

dodderangler

Funk It wrote: »

A ferret, was a mental bugger, never knew that they give off a bad smell when they startle themselves either

Ferrets are great pets. Have one myself and he's a great little pet and good hunter too.
Chipmunks were pretty bad pets. Vicious bast4rds.
The worst was a Bosc or savannah monitor as they are called aswell. This thing was 3 foot long and had good bit of weight in him. He was very aggressive.
Long muscly tail that was serious quick to lash and whip you and jaws that could crush fingers.
Have enough scars over the bast4rd

General General

dodderangler wrote: »

Ferrets are great pets. Have one myself and he's a great little pet and good hunter too.
Chipmunks were pretty bad pets. Vicious bast4rds.
The worst was a Bosc or savannah monitor as they are called aswell. This thing was 3 foot long and had good bit of weight in him. He was very aggressive.
Long muscly tail that was serious quick to lash and whip you and jaws that could crush fingers.
Have enough scars over the bast4rd

Great if you've got mice, I hear... or rabbits... mammals of dog size or smaller, in fact.

mutley18

RidleyRider wrote: »

I love how you're name is mutley like the dog from dastardly and mutley:D

What can i say? I love dogs!

bozharry

My bunny Bugsy( inventive name or what) used to chase me up the garden! Little did I know he was using the excerise to flick his legs and spray pee on me! Loved him so muh. He died after knawing on our creosote painted wood shed!!!! Never even crossed our mind that it would harm him! Miss you Bugsy xxxxx

shruikan2553

None of my pets were really bad. The dog did make a habit of humping my arm if I sat on the ground and was the perfect size for her mouth to be at my ear so she would be panting and whispering sweet nothings in my ear as she went to town on my arm. Try pushing her off and she would jump back on.

The dog also learnt that if she had a sock someone would take it off her and put it back so decided to hand my mum a sock(would normally do her best to keep it), when my mum came back the dog was finishing her lunch.

Always wanted to get ferretss.

face1990

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Goldfish the ones I had never lasted more than a day had to keep replacing them.

I had one that lived 10 years! They're very boring pets though.

I had tropical fish for a while. One day I was cleaning the tank (a horrible job, and you get nothing back from the fish) and the next day I noticed one of the fish was missing. I assumed it had died and been eaten by the catfish until I found it's shrivelled body over the other side of the room.

Irish Guitarist

I used to collect ladybirds and keep them in a jar filled with water. No one bothered to tell me that ladybirds don't live in water.

Demonique

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

Goldfish, most boring pet ever.

Ours weren't boring when we came down to find 1 and 1/2 goldfish in the bowl, it was obvious what had happened. We had a pair of little terrapins in with them and they were still nibbling on it

michellepinto

A parrot....he was one mad hatter.

Demonique

dodderangler wrote: »

Ferrets are great pets. Have one myself and he's a great little pet and good hunter too.
Chipmunks were pretty bad pets. Vicious bast4rds.
The worst was a Bosc or savannah monitor as they are called aswell. This thing was 3 foot long and had good bit of weight in him. He was very aggressive.
Long muscly tail that was serious quick to lash and whip you and jaws that could crush fingers.
Have enough scars over the bast4rd

Boscs can be lovely, I've held a few nice older ones in Reptile Haven, I've heard the babies are nippy at first though.
You have to be careful picking them up, one of the lads in Reptile Haven picked up an adult who was trying to get into a shelf with bags of woodchips, whatever way he picked him up, he put pressure on its bowels and it shat all over the floor


Worse pet we've ever had was a cockatoo I got in a market in Paris. When I came home from Paris the bird went two days ahead of me on Aer Lingus cargo. It never got tame, it did get to the point though that it would take one of it's toys off you and then fling it on the floor.
Beautiful looking animal, didn't make a beautiful noise though. And he used to peck holes in things.

Worst non-pet animal we had was a horse. My uncle and his friend who supposed know about horses came with us, looked at the horse's teeth and agreed that he was five or six years old.
After we bought him one of the instructors at the Pony Club said he was only three years old.
He was hard to catch and the last time I rode him he threw me off.


At the moment I have a wild little iguana, have her three years and she never tamed down. I've had iguanas before and they all tamed down (one male did get aggressive at about 6-7 years old age)
I miss having a tame iggy

TrixIrl

The mother's female Bichon Frise is a lesbian cat rapist. She waits for the cat to fall asleep and then aggressively humps her. The humping becomes more aggressive the more the cat fights her.... The poor cat is traumatized and sleep deprived!

The Pheasant2

When I was 10 I bought a stick insect which I named Trevor. Turns out stick insects aren't interested in much else than looking like a stick...may as well have bought a stick!

Mr. CooL ICE

When i was 5, my parents bought a terrier from a puppy farm, being none the wiser. The guy was insane. My parents wormed him on the first day and he pretty much crapped out a small pile of worms. He was loud, aggressive and couldn't be housetrained. After 10 months, I arrived home from school one day to hear that he "had gone to live on a farm with other dogs". Despite being 6, I didn't cry. Was glad he was gone.

A few years later, my parents recognised a name in the newspaper. Same guy they bought the dog from was jailed for animal cruelty.

Bob Dobolina

A pet rock, I **** you not, load of ****!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock

Duff

Travis, my Iguana. Since he was a little baby lizard you couldn't wear any clothing with zips on them as he'd try and lick them constantly. Also you can't sit and watch telly or go on the laptop and let him run around the room, oh no, he HAS to sit on your shoulder/head. Even now and he's fully grown at 4ft! Complete header but I love him.

Don't even know why i'm posting in the ''worst'' thread 'cus he's not the worst. I just wanted to tell you how awesome Travis is.

kylith

When I was a kid one of my friends had a hamster who was a vicious little ****er, used to bite everyone.

My worst pet was a moth. I kept it in a Ferrero Rocher box. I was a weird child.

Mo60

oldyouth wrote: »

Her indoors has had various cats over the last 25 years. Standard issue ones.

Totally useless yokes altogether. I'd rather keep a snot as a pet, it would be more interesting

Maybe 'her indoors' finds cats more interesting than him outside.;)